Teacher of English

Hours: 32.5

Contract Type: Permanent

Moseley School and Sixth Form

College Road

Springfield

Birmingham

B13 9UU

We are looking to recruit a Teacher of English for our successful, established English faculty. This role is open to a Qualified or an Unqualified teacher who has the passion and enthusiasm to make a positive impact on the young people at our school. This is an exciting opportunity to join the team.

Our successful, established English faculty is looking for a new team member with the passion and enthusiasm to make a positive impact on the young people at our school. At the heart of our curriculum is the exploration of the human condition, exploring themes of identity, relationships, and conflict across the key stages. We choose our texts carefully to reflect the breadth of literature and experiences with which we want our students to engage. We are reflective, supportive, and collaborative in our approach, using research to underpin our teaching and learning practices, and being mindful of staff workload in decisions particularly around shared planning and marking expectations.

We have established links with local universities, and there are opportunities every year for staff to mentor ITT students who can learn from our knowledgeable and supportive team.

At Moseley, you can look forward to being part of a dynamic team who are responsive to the needs of the students, with Entry Level being delivered from Year 9, to ensure that targeted students get the support in accessing GCSE. At A-level, we have a varied and engaging choice of texts and these are adapted to the needs and interests of each cohort.

A focus on literacy is central to our school curriculum, with tutor time reading well-established in the school. As an English teacher, you will be part of the team supporting this drive, closely collaborating with our librarian, to ensure all students make the most of our wonderful school library, as well as running competitions and other activities for students in all year groups.

Core Purpose:

To ensure that students make positive progress against prior attainment, by ensuring that teaching is consistently of a high quality, progress is monitored, and appropriate measures are taken to address any areas of underachievement.

Responsibilities for all teachers:

• meet the relevant Teachers’ Standards
• promote the values and aims of the school.
• follow all relevant school policies.
• to be aware of, and assume the appropriate level of responsibility for, safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and to report any concerns in accordance with the school’s safeguarding policies.
• create and maintain effective partnerships with parents and carers.
• treat students, parents, and colleagues fairly, equitably and with dignity and respect
• to comply with the school’s Health & Safety policy and statutory requirements
• plan lessons and sequences of lessons, ensuring lessons have pace and variety, that learning is personalised to meet individual learning needs and that teaching caters for the full range of learning styles of students.
• ensure that teaching reflects the diversity of backgrounds of students and promotes mutual respect.
• contribute to regular curriculum review to help maintain a relevant, stimulating, and innovative curriculum provision.
• take responsibility for personal continuing professional development to ensure that knowledge and skills are kept up to date with respect to subject(s), pedagogy and curriculum developments plus wider school, local and national issues.
• assess progress of students in line with policy and records to ensure regular feedback and encouragement is given to students to take responsibility for their own learning.
• instigate measures to address the causes of identified underperformance and monitor the effectiveness of those measures.
• submit assessments to the school database, and complete students’ reports for parents’ consultation deadlines in school calendar, ensuring they provide an accurate record of the progress of each individual and meeting high quality standards.
• complete registers to monitor attendance and punctuality and take action to address any issues.
• utilise appropriate behaviour management strategies in lessons in line with school policy.
• participate in lesson observation and other measures to monitor delivery of learning outcomes and quality of teaching and implement measures to address any improvement issues identified.
• participate in the appraisal process, identifying personal professional development priorities which will impact on students’ learning.

This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS; Prohibition check; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work.  All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references. 

Rehabilitation of offenders: This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.

An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates.

Closing Date: 7 October 2024, 8:00am

How to Apply:

Please visit our school website recruitment page for further information regarding the role and details about our school https://moseley.bham.sch.uk/

We welcome visitors to the school. Please contact us if you would like to arrange a visit.

Please contact the Recruitment Team if you would like further information regarding this role or the school in general please email us on recruitment@moseley.bham.sch.uk